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Barcombe Walk A walk across fields and along quiet country lanes, following the river Ouse to Barcombe Mills, visiting the ‘three villages of Barcombe’.

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Local Information This walk takes you through the three villages that make up ‘Barcombe’. The original village of Barcombe near the church was largely deserted at the time of the Black Death, when Barcombe Cross replaced it as the main centre. The settlement of Barcombe Mills grew up around the river Ouse, with flour mills being mentioned in Domesday.

Essential Information Distance: 5.3 miles/8.6km Start/Finish: Barcombe Cross High Street Walk grade: Easy Post Code: BN8 5DH Maps: OS Explorer 122 Grid Ref: TQ 421158 OS Landranger 198 path around the buildings. After passing the Route Description barn on the surfaced driveway turn left to cross the bridge. 1) Starting from the Post Office in Barcombe Cross High Street, turn right and head 4) Turn immediately right after the bridge and towards the roundabout, turn right again and follow the riverside footpath to Barcombe follow the road for approximately 385 metres Mills. Turn right onto the road, crossing the (420 yards). Turn left at the footpath sign bridge and follow the road passing the old and follow the field edge path to reach the toll house and site of the old toll bridge. footbridge. Turn immediately left after the bridge and continue to follow the footpath 5) Continue to follow the road to join the into the next field heading initially towards main road. Turn right to follow past the old a pair of red tile hung cottages. Before Barcombe Mills station on your left, to find reaching the cottages the footpath divides, the next footpath sign on the left. Of the bear right at this point and follow the route three footpaths at this point, follow the left across the field to the farm drive, with the hand one along the field edge to the stile fortified barns of Banks Farm visible on in the field corner. Continue, crossing two your right. footbridges and the route of the old railway, bearing right at the next sign across the 2) Cross the drive to follow the waymarked field to reach a handgate. Continue to reach path, bearing left after the first field and a signpost, at which, turn left to follow the continue along the edge of the next field, path between the houses. keeping the hedgerow on your left. Turn right and follow Anchor Lane for approximately 6) Cross the road and follow the path along 475 metres (520 yards) to the next footpath the field edge. At the far side of the field turn signed on the right. sharp right to double back over a footbridge. Follow this path towards Barcombe Church 3) Follow the field edge path turning right at the and at the surfaced path turn right past next signpost and keep the hedge on your the thatched round house and barn on right. Follow the path around the corner of your right. the field and cross into the adjacent field at the next gap. Continue, now keeping the 7) Cross the road to the kissing hedge on your left to reach the next stile. gate and follow the waymarked After the stile keep to the well waymarked path to the next road. Turn right and then left at the road junction. After approximately 210 metres (230 yards) turn left over the stile and follow the waymarked footpath turning right at the next signpost to cross the old railway route again.

8) After the kissing gate follow the line of the waymarked path to reach another sign and stile. Follow the path around the field edge and then along the surfaced section behind the houses. Turn left at the end of this path and follow the road, crossing another, back to the High Street, next to the Royal Oak. Swan on the river above Barcombe Mills

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